Református ujság - Fraternity-Testvériség, 1940 (18. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1940-05-01 / 5. szám

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TESTVÉRISÉG

and only in this way can you be worthy sons and daughters of this country.

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However, besides the young people, we have something to say to the parents, too. Our children were given to us by God and we are responsible for them. It depends upon us whether we will keep alive our own souls in them or whether we will allow the spirit, the Hungarian Reformed spirit, to die out in them. Let no one say that children in America cannot be influenced. Blood never turns to water and our blood flows in their veins. But, if we give them away left and right to strangers, if we permit our children to grow up NOT IN OUR CIRCLES, not in our institutions, but in OTHER CIRCLES, we need not wonder when we eventually lose them.

Our grown up children already think for themselves, which is as it should be. However, these independent thinkers themselves can soon be convinced of the truth of our assertions if the viewpoints of these truths are plainly explained to them — not with commands or coercion, which is useless and has no real value, but with the patient kindness and persuasiveness of loving Hungarian Reformed parents. Let us do this, because this is our duty to ourselves, our race and our faith.

Julius Melegít, D. D.

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KÖSZÖNET KÉT TANULÓNKTÓL

Amikor Egyesületünktől ismét megkaptuk az 1939-40 évre ajándékozott tanulmányi segélyt, melyben a mi szeretett Egyesületünk minden diák tagját részesíti, mi sem tudjuk elfeledni, hogy hálás köszönetünket ne fejeznénk ki úgy a titkár urnák, tisztviselőknek és az össz- tagságnak.

Maradtunk továbbra is tagtársi szeretettel,

State Teachers College, Elvira M. Barkaszy

West Chester, Pa. és Demeter B. Erzsiké.

‘HELPED TREMENDOUSLY”

Dear Mr. Molnár:

I wanted to take the first opportunity to write to you and thank you for the check and the prompt attention that you gave my request. I want you to know that the student aid you have given me has helped tremendously. I shall attempt in the nearest future to pay back the loan and hope some other needy student may be helped.

Sincerely yours,

California, Pa. John G. Kovács.

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“HA AZ OKLEVELET MEGKAPOM”

Mélyen tisztelt Molnár Ur:

A diák-segélyt megkaptam, amiért hálás köszönetét mondok. Ha az orvosi oklevelet megkapom, majd arra törekszem, hogy kétszeresen vissza tudjam adni.

Még egyszer nagyon szépen köszönöm.

Maradok tisztelettel,

Papp Béla.

THIS COUNTRY, YES

This land is like all other lands In that it’s so unlike the rest.

God scores its scenes and sins and yet Here spills life’s gems that men love best.

Where billboards hide behind their backs The landscape from the artist’s eye,

And roadways wind through colored ads Who daily watch the Fords go by.

And Ham remains a foreigner Where Japheth’s banner is unfurled;

Where forty firms, unblushing, brag To be the largest in the world.

Where thousands fling away their coins For moment’s fleeting rapture when A human lump with swollen eyes Lies bleeding at the count of ten.

Where sentiments are swayed with ease,

And thinking causes heads to ache;

Where wedlocks soon unlock again And as frail china dishes break.

Where houses are but inns to eat,

And bungalows but huts to sleep;

And cars our homes that hurry us As we across life’s highway sweep.

Where Calvin’s “cruel” God is shelfed In gray forgotten attic-dust,

And boarded windows bar the light Where church doors in their hinges rust; Where killer-keepers lead their guests To luxury-hotels and...then The pardoned guests repeat their crimes To earn this room and board again Yes. . .yet. . .this is the land wehere men Induce their rulers to abstain From drowning precious sons in blood On Flanders’ foreign fields again.

And this, this is the land where we,

Though fortune-less, are human still;

And are not stared to nothingness By some aristocratic will.

And this, this is the land where we May read the Book as we see fit;

Where Stalin’s finger has no strength To tear away one word of it.

And this, this is the land God set Between two guards—those vast deep seas Who in blue-silver uniforms Protect these gems and liberties.

(Calvin Forum) —Albert Piersma.

ÉRTESÍTÉS!

Tisztelettel értesítjük a Ref. Egyesület 15-ik osztályának a tagjait, hogy a gyűléseinken minden hóffap első szombat estéjén a Ref. Egyház Iskola termében, tartsák tagsági kötelezettségüknek megjelenni.

Tisztelettel, az osztály tisztikara.

Cleveland, O.